PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ilomil jfooetg of §ictoiti. 



VOL. IX. (New Series). 



Edited under the Authority of the Council. 



ISSUED MARCH, 1897. 



{Containing Papers read before the Society during 1896). 



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1897. 



